T2T and HL activities : Friday, 17 January 2020 Write a My News piece about your weekend. Start with an exclamation sentence to engage your audience and then give lots of who, where, when, what details. Read your bug club book. On your book choosing day, choose a...
Year 2’s efforts to capture as many new and interesting words as possible is continuing. The children love being able to encounter a new word and rather than ignore it or be afraid of it, they capture it and bring it in for us all to share. This is having a very...
We love our reading assemblies! For twenty minutes on a Thursday, year 1 and 2 come together to share and explore their reading books together. Today, the year 2 children were sharing their most recent reading text. The Year 1s were making sure the Year 2s read it to...
In year 2, we’ve been trying out a slightly different approach to the new words that the children encounter, capture and share when they are reading at home. The reading team for that day will share their words with me before break in the reading club and then I...
The KS1 team were lucky enough to be able to host Kate Green, an artist working with Newton Abbot museum, for a day. Kate is working on display materials for the new Newton Abbot museum and was seeking ideas from local schools. Our local museum is a very special place...
It was wonderful to come into school this morning and have one family excitedly present me with the home learning they had all done together over the weekend. they had got their child to write a recount of the weekend, but did not help him at all, instead let him...